I found one in the wild, and I'm horrified!

Yesterday, I was on a long-distance train, as I often am on weekends, to spend the weekend with friends. In the other seat in my row was a male adolescent, probably around 15 or 16 years old, or even younger.

Unlike the usual situation in the wagons, where people are quiet and focused on their own activities, such as doing late work on their laptops, watching movies with headphones, or reading, this adolescent was watching "something" on his phone with the hands-free feature on and the volume at full blast. He had also spread his things all over the place. I had to ask him to move his things from my seat. (We have assigned seats on trains here.) He did so reluctantly.

He was watching Andrew Tate videos, which I think he was alternating with pranks where women were ridiculed and crying or shouting in terror. I have never seen any of this misogynistic material, so I don't know if women being terrorized is part of Andrew Tate's content or if it was his own "playlist." Either way, I'm not sure what's worse. He was really enjoying it, laughing and really into it.

It was extremely shocking to me because in our schools and high schools, there is a lot of emphasis on gender equality and against precisely these messages. It was also shocking because the individual was completely native, so he wasn't someone who recently came to the country, but rather someone who was raised here.

But what horrified me most was the combination of theoretical indoctrination of male superiority and practical examples of violence against women.

Even more horrifying is the failure of our system. This is sweden, things like this simply don't happen here.